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During his 2015 State of the Union address, then-President Barack Obama announced what he promised would be an ambitious public health project. “Tonight, I’m launching a new Precision Medicine Initiative to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes...

This is the 15th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. You can read the first part here. The series...

Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.

"These are saliva...

"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

By Mercury News, Mercury News | 12.28.2012

SACRAMENTO (AP) -- California women who want to get pregnant using sperm from a donor they know should find the...

By Jeremy Laurance, The Independent | 12.28.2012
Wealthy British couples who cannot have children are increasingly seeking "wombs for hire" from women overseas, according to figures obtained...
By Kim Mulvihill, CBS San Francisco | 12.28.2012

More Bay Area parents are spending thousands of dollars to select if their child will be a boy or girl...

By Gina Kolata, New York Times | 12.24.2012

In a move likely to renew a longstanding ethical controversy, geneticists are quietly making plans to study the DNA of...

By Carey Gillam, Reuters | 12.21.2012
* FDA to take comments for 60 days before giving final OK

* Critics seek action from Congress, threaten to...
By Robert Langreth & John Lauerman, Bloomberg | 12.20.2012

April Hauge, a nurse practitioner in Weimar, California, spent $500 on a genetic test for her autistic son in...

By L. Arias, Tico Times | 12.20.2012
The San José-based Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a ruling Thursday night against the government of Costa Rica condemning...
By Deutsche Welle, Deutsche Welle | 12.20.2012

Germany's Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe decided on Thursday that when investigators encounter DNA evidence from mass genetic testing...